Michael Everson
@evertype.bsky.social
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Linguist, publisher, typographer, medievalist, immigrant. Into Le Guin, Wonderland, Hobbits, Unicode, minority languages. 🖖🏻🏴🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Linguist, publisher, typographer, medievalist, immigrant. Into Le Guin, Wonderland, Hobbits, Unicode, minority languages. 🖖🏻🏴🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
![The character was proposed for inclusion into Unicode in 2007[8] and incorporated as character U+A66E in Unicode version 5.1 (2008).[9] The representative glyph had seven eyes and sat on the baseline. However, in 2021, following a tweet highlighting the character,[10] it came to linguist Michael Everson's attention that the character in the 1429 manuscript was actually made up of ten eyes. After a 2022 proposal to change the character to reflect this, it was updated later that year for Unicode 15.0 to have ten eyes and to extend below the baseline.[11][12] However, not all fonts support the ten-eyed variant as of May 2025.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pyzlzqt6b2nyrha7smfry6rv/bafkreidmg5pf525b5ec7r6yyanvdhumi4mkfdvmxtrgvf4bythbmgreg7q)
